Adolf Hitler

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Date Added: 10 / 09 / 2009
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April 20, 1889 was just an ordinary day to most people. Little did they know that in only 30 years someone by name of Adolf Hitler would rise up and start to take over Germany and kill off Jews. Adolf was born into a small Austrian town called Braunau, which was near the German border. His fathers name was Alois Hitler who was a senior customs official. His mothers name was Klara Hitler. He had four brothers and sister but only one of his sisters grew up to be an adult.
Adolf did very well in school and his peers looking up to him. Many of his teachers because of that same reason liked him. Hitler was a very religious child he once even thought of being a monk. A little later Adolf started to attend a secondary school where academics were, so much harder than at a primary school. He started to notice he was not top in the class and started to give up. That made his dad furious considering Alois thought Adolf was going to grow up, be just like him, and join the senior custom officials’ right out of school. His pupils stopped looking up to him as a leader and Adolf started getting into fighting games such as, reenacting previous wars. Hitler also loved art. This caused trouble between his dad and him, which ended when Alois died in 1903. At the age of eighteen, Hitler was given money from his dad’s inheritance and moved to be an art student in Vienna.
Both art academies rejected Hitler to be there as a student. Hitler thought this was very humiliating. In the year of 1907, his mother Klara died and that hurt Adolf much more then when his father died. He has been claimed to of been holding a picture of her since then until the day he died.
In 1909, Hitler decided to register for military service. He refused to work in Austria-Hungry so he ignored his call up papers. It took them 4 years to find him. Right before World War 1 Adolf decided to sign up and be part of the army for Germany since he despised Austria-Hungry. Hitler loved to be in the army. He liked...